EVERETT — Unless you’re into rowing, there’s a good chance that you’ve never heard of Pocock Racing Shells. But for many of the country’s athletes and amateurs, students and coaches, Pocock has been a ...

A best-selling sports book, “The Boys in the Boat,” describes the unlikely path of working-class blokes to gold-medal glory at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. There’s lots about rowing, but what struck this ...

MATHEWS – George R. Pocock Sr., 78, passed away at this home in Mathews, Va., on Tuesday, June 28, 2011, surrounded by his loved ones. George was born on Oct. 19, 1932, to Ralph and Rosa Pocock in ...

What Notre Dame is to intercollegiate football, the University of Washington (Seattle) is to intercollegiate rowing. Not only do practically all the racing shells used by U. S. college crews come from ...

This Saturday, Seattle’s Montlake Cut will feature a conga line of boats so long that, jammed bow to stern, they would stretch for more than a mile and cost more than a good-sized gated community.

It takes about six minutes for the University of Washington’s top men’s rowing team to power the latest model Pocock racing shell on their home course through the Montlake Cut. But it took the factory ...